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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 195 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MESSUAGE (from Anglo-
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French mesuage, probably a corruption of mesuage,
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menage, popular
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Lat. mansionaticuni, from mansio, whence mod. Fr. maison, from manere, to dwell)  , in
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law, a
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term
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equivalent to a dwelling-
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house, and including out-buildings,
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orchard,
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curtilage or
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court-yard and
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garden . At one
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time
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messuage " is supposed to have had a more extensive meaning than that comprised in the word house, but such. distinction, if it ever existed, no longer survives .

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